Confessions of a horse dealer
Bookreader Item Preview
Share or Embed This Item
- Publication date
- [1861?]
- Topics
- Horses
- Publisher
- London, Published for the proprietors
- Contributor
- University of California Libraries
- Language
- English
iv, 300 p
- Addeddate
- 2007-01-11 00:14:16
- Call number
- nrlf_ucb:GLAD-17051297
- Camera
- 1Ds
- Collection-library
- nrlf_ucb
- Copyright-evidence
- Evidence reported by scanner-ian-white for item confessionsofhor00taylrich on January 11, 2007: no visible notice of copyright; exact publication date unknown.
- Copyright-evidence-date
- 20070111001231
- Copyright-evidence-operator
- scanner-ian-white
- Copyright-region
- US
- External-identifier
-
urn:oclc:record:1042557907
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- confessionsofhor00taylrich
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t8tb10c9j
- Identifier-bib
- GLAD-17051297
- Lcamid
- 318502
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.37
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.21
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL7207564M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL16742198W
- Page_number_confidence
- 100
- Page_number_module_version
- 1.0.3
- Pages
- 316
- Possible copyright status
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
- Ppi
- 600
- Rcamid
- 324876
- Scandate
- 20070111035114
- Scanner
- rich3
- Scanningcenter
- rich
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 30444941
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
comment
Reviews
Reviewer:
Zither
-
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite -
June 13, 2008
Subject: If you think buying a horse is tricky now...
Subject: If you think buying a horse is tricky now...
Joke e-mails circulate on how to translate horse-for-sale ads. In the older days, out-right dishonesty was common, including selling one horse and sending another, falsifying age (when few horses had papers), and patching up diseases like glanders long enough to get the horse off their hands. If you know horses, the stories here range from the hilarious to the horrifying. If you know nothing about horses except which end eats, you can still enjoy the fun of all these connivers. Beyond amusing his readers (and warning them), Taylor also gives advice on choosing and caring for horses, the veterinary treatments of the day, how-to of driving and riding, and "Twenty things which a bad Groom or Coachman will do." The second half is simply an all-around humane period reference on horses which, except for the medical, isn't really out of date. Indeed, it might be hard to better his advice on the causes and handling of runaway saddle horses, including when and how to jump off.
2,417 Views
4 Favorites
DOWNLOAD OPTIONS
For users with print-disabilities
IN COLLECTIONS
California Digital LibraryUploaded by scanner-ian-white on